Ok Im looking to get some lowering springs for the time being so I can get rid of my wheel gap and until I save money for some KW Variant 3 coilovers. My question is what springs shall I get? Im going to get a front lip and want to get the car pretty low.

This is how my car sits now... I hate wheel gap it looks like a monster truck...





Any ideas? there is about 3 inches of wheels gap.
Thanks for all the help

 

Don't waste your money on springs if your just going to get KW V3s. You can get them alot sooner if you wait rather than burning your money now. It will be more worth it in the long run and you don't have to do everything twice.

 

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there has been many discussions regarding this topic, please SEARCH dude!!!

 

Yes I agree but I wont be able to get the coilovers for awhile so spending some money on springs is ok for now.

 

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Sell your wheels, get some stocks and buy some coilovers.

If you want the lowest ride hight spring go with swift. But if you search there is a million threads on spring with pictures.


Modified by SlammedDC2teg at 8:04 PM 5/28/2008

 

i been searching and I made this topic because I thought it be different with the type of wheels im running since im running aggressive offsets on purpose

 

espelir asd's ftw ****

 

Thansk what are the specs for them?

 

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but you fail to post your "aggressive" wheels specs

 

oops sorry but im running 17x8 + 35 i front and 17x9.5 + 38 in back. Do you need tire specs to?

 

You're going to be rolling and trimming your rear quarter panel to make them fit without rubbing up a storm.

Example: 7.5 +49 front, 9 +35 rear


You will probably not be able to go any wider in your tire selection than what's on it, from the looks of it, and you may need to run some negative camber just to make it work.

It will look good when you're done, though...should be something like this.


In order to make this happen on springs alone, you're going to need to buy either Espilier ASD's, or Skunk2 springs. K?

What front lip are you planning on getting?

 

espelir asd's drop about 1.5 but since its a honda remeber the rear will look slightly lower than the front.

 

ive always wondered why that is.

 

I got my wheels from the red s2k pictured I love how it looks. I plan on running a oem front lip and my front and rear wheels wells are rolled already. I really want my car about as low as both the black and red s2k so what springs will work better the Espelirs or Skunks? I really dont want alot of wheel gap anymore

 

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rear quaters sit a lil lower than the front fenders. Thats just the way Honda mde it.

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You haave more luck looking like the red one if you use espelir because its a dead even 1.5 drop all around; notice how in the read one the rears tuck a lil more then the front. Skunks drop the car with a rake so the front sits lower then the back. I personaly like it when the car has a litle bit of a rake.

 

If I use the espelir springs will my car be almost as low as the red one pitured above or no? If no how far down will it be

 

^ i dono dude. I geuss go outside with a ruler and and take away 1.5 off of ur wheel gap and thats probably how your car will sit. I dont think it would be too much higher than the red one. maybe .25" tops.

 

you are smoking crack, that guy got to be on coilover, you can't dump it on spring.

to the op: save the money until you can afford a real coilover.

if you are just going for the spring that low, you are running much higher spring rate which your damper will not like. not to mention you will get the alignement done twice.

the rear doesnt have alot of travel for our car, please dont dump it just for look

 

^ when i put my ap2 v1's on my car had about the same stance as that red ap1 maybe a tad bit higher and im on espelir asd's. but im not disagreeing with you that dude has to be on coilovers. But I really dont have any problems with my springs i love everything about them. And when i pair them up with some koni yellows it will be awesome. I dont see how coilovers are better then a decent shock and spring combo besides the fact that you cant adjust ridehight.

 

The black car(mine) is on Koni Yellows and Tein S.Tech springs, with the springs witting on the lower perch of the shock.

This is how the Skunk2 springs sit.

 

thanks for all the help everyone I think ill probably go with the espelir springs I just hope they close alot of wheel gap cause I have so much of it

 

^ just hope they dont rub. If they do a lil or even if they dont you should consider running the uk spec allignment its nice.

 

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i think these might be on backwards, as there has been much debate on these springs on here and s2ki.com i don't know if anyone really knows which way they are supposed to go but usually 9 coils in the rear gives the rake effect and 8 coils in the rear makes the car sit even all the way around. so i think it is more on personal preferance but with it switched the front will sit just above the front tire instead of that gap. here is a pic with the springs switched:

 

Eibach Pro-Kits, stock dampers
17x8 +45 and 17x9 +45
225/45/17 and 255/40/17

 

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i think these might be on backwards, as there has been much debate on these springs on here and s2ki.com i don't know if anyone really knows which way they are supposed to go but usually 9 coils in the rear gives the rake effect and 8 coils in the rear makes the car sit even all the way around. so i think it is more on personal preferance but with it switched the front will sit just above the front tire instead of that gap. here is a pic with the springs switched:

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what springs are you talking about?